Re: beagle xesam

["Anders Rune Jensen" <anders iola dk>]

On Dec 18, 2007 10:41 AM, Arun Raghavan <arunissatan gmail com> wrote:
> On 17/12/2007, Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:
> > > >   So beagle-xesam-0.1 was also released yesterday. Congratulations and
> > > > thanks. Would you mind giving a few details on what exactly it does now ?
> > > > How can it be used ? Where does it sit between beagle and xesam (pun
> > > > intended) ? Where does it go from here ?
> > ...
> > > Basically the adaptor as it stands allows Xesam clients to connect to
> > > it, and pass it queries. The adaptor acts as a translator between the
> > > Xesam API and Beagle's native API. It takes Xesam queries over DBus,
> > > passes them on to beagled, and the hits back in Xesam-ese.
> > > Beagle-Xesam largely conforms to the latest (RC1) Xesam spec.
> > ...
> > > To summarize, the basic adaptor is functional as it stands. The path
> > > ahead should become clearer as clients that use the spec arise.
> >
> > Ok so its functional and conforms to the spec. Is there any possibility of
> > bringing the adapter into beagled itself ?
>
> Yes to the first, and to a pretty large extent for the second. It /is/
> possible to bring it into beagled and run as a separate thread. My
> opinion is that this should be deferred till we have a few more
> clients to put the code through it's paces.

I agree with this. Being external has the advantage that you can do
more releases, which is very important when the product is still
moving fast :-)

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Anders Rune Jensen
http://people.iola.dk/anders/